 By 2006, his website was gaining 600,000 hits a week, and by 2011 his books had been translated into 11 languages.Icke has held public lectures around the world, and by 2006 had spoken in at least 25 countries.He spoke for seven hours to 2,500 people at the Brixton Academy, London, in 2008, and the same year addressed the University of Oxford's debating society, the Oxford Union.